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This is a pretty easy one. EULAs are generally public information linked to on the internet.

Just link to the EULA that contains language that may indicate you need to delete your ebooks on declaring bankrupcy.

If its 50 pages long, it might be helpful to provide a quote or two. Or link to someone elese who has done that analysis like say groklaw.
To be honest, I'm having a hard time way to express this concisely enough for an HN comment, but the gist is that, while the government can protect rights, rights must exist even if no single authority is responsible for protecting them. Otherwise, they are privileges.

This isn't quite the same thing, but look up the arguments for why Internet access is not a human right[1]. I can't find the article I'm thinking of that explains it well, but the idea is that, if someone lacks Internet access on a desert island, it's not necessarily because someone is actively infringing on their right. If someone is a slave to another, someone is actively infringing on their human rights under Article 4 of the UDHR.

[1] Contrast 'human right' with 'civil right' and you'll see why the concept of 'rights' is so complex.
He acknowledges that in the video, and I think it's perfectly fine. I can't imagine a system for bikes that can accomplish both.
> The other poster stopped acting like a mature adult,

I love that giving credence to such a stupid argument is apparently acting like a mature adult. I never realized humouring people was so noble.
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Hi mike, the answer to this really depends. you should qualify such blank statements a bit more. To be precise:

* startup memory is much higher (30M vs 5M roughly). If you have lots of very small processes, PyPy is not a good fit.

* objects are smaller (by a bit unspecified amount, up to 50%)

* there is a GC overhead which means peak memory will be ~30% of your total heap

* JIT occupies some memory. This is a function of the size of your code.
> Wrong, it was flagged and removed almost immediately.

Congratulations.

I'm up 20 overall from this comment string which maintained the same tone and point throughout, so I think I'm plenty welcome thanks.
It's definition under my definition of 'hacking.' Consider that the GNU tools already implement non-portable extensions; this would be yet another one, were it added. Also, portability is not an essential requirement for "hacking." I do small programming exercises sometimes in order to understand a facet of how things work. Consider this as an exercise in how to use locale-dependent specifiers.

As I pointed out elsewhere, your sed code doesn't work because it changes too many numbers - including filenames and dates - in the output. Also, if the exercise is to understand localization then your sed code isn't appropriate because it hard-codes "," when some locales use a "." as the thousands separator.

And for completeness, your alias can't then mix and match other flags, like "ls -lRt". It's a single command with strange side-effects if you use it incorrectly:

% lll -art
sed: illegal option -- r
usage: sed script [-Ealn] [-i extension] [file ...]
sed [-Ealn] [-i extension] [-e script] ... [-f script_file] ... [file ...]
Mr. Lehey managed to improve the system in such a way that it will subsequent changes for him and others easier, independently of whether the specific change to `ls` is never adopted. It's “five whys” applied to “why is this hard” and “how can I make it easier”. It's more effort, with a greater chance that much of it will survive the current context and requirements.

Some people improve the area they travel through, others leave debris, and many are noops who make no difference to those who come after. If there's not enough entropy fighters like Mr. Lehey working a system, it turns to kipple.
i was just thinking about this. i would collect all mail addressed to "current resident" or something equally vague and every christmas drop it off in front of the post office.
"(about 90% of the time a company in Boca Raton, Florida is involved but that is a longer story)."

This just makes me smile. I finished my degree at FAU in Boca, but was so busy working to pay my way, I missed the seamy underbelly of the town. A few years back, my brother was there for business and got sucked into a Pump and dump scheme with one of his "wealthy" friends.
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Same for the "Clockpunk" subgenre - It's Sci-Fi in the time or form of Leonardo Da'Vinci.

There's definetly a point, though - Have you read Sci-Fi set in the time of the Pyramids? In the time of the Roman Empire? Would you? What would change?

It's worth looking up "Rome Sweet Rome", a short story that got some acclaim a few months back when it was written on Reddit and then optioned by Warner Bros. It's modern military sci-fi, essentially, but the setting and the detail that's put into "What would happen if a modern platoon were set down in the time of the roman empire?" is pretty good.
You've also nailed it with your first sentence.

The answer to your question of whether the book is necessary is in the blog post (I think marketers call this a "sales letter"?). It is in bold. It describes a person who wants to pay money in order to improve their life.

Now, as to anyone claiming to have paid money and had their life improve, we may know that paying money was not necessary and not at cause for any change in their life. That was something they did on their own. But the blogger is OK with that. In fact he sees it as a key to his enterprise. He says the product (web app, etc.) does not necessarily matter. You simply need to find people who want to pay money to improve their life.

The ethical question is do you care if 99% of them may fail to improve it by simply paying money? That's not your fault of course. But it makes you wonder what exactly you are selling. Maybe you are just a sink for a known type of source --> The type of person looking to spend money on information to "improve their life", despite the availability of the same information without cost; and despite the fact that the key to improving their life may have nothing to do with impulsively buying an ebook.

Not everyone will answer that ethical question the same way.
If they did we would not be having a discussion about this.

Any Rails developer can skip the ebook and just raise their rates for new clients. What's the worst that can happen? The only way to know what the market will bear is to test it.
Alternatively they could stop coding and sell ebooks to other developers with the knowledge that "some people are looking to spend money to improve their lives and it really doesn't matter what that something is". It doesn't have to be a application you spent large blocks of time developing. An ebook on how easy it is to make money (by finding people ready to spend money to improve their lives) that you wrote in a single day may be just fine.
I'm sorry you hate me with a fiery passion. I can assure you the feeling is not mutual.

I don't see the contradiction. Stallman would agree that the GPL isn't ideal; he'd say it's a hack designed to twist our broken legal system into respecting our fundamental freedoms. The GPL is almost an anti-license, since it exists solely to do the exact opposite of what copyright laws and licenses are intended to do (restrict freedoms).

Put another way: yes, it's using the system, but any attempt to change the system from within is, by definition, 'using the system'.

If our laws deemed proprietary software licenses to be non-enforceable, I doubt anybody (Stallman included) would see the need for the GPL.
I consider myself a Libertarian also.

The problem with government funded health care is what you can't see. True market based competition leads to lower prices and greater innovation in all observable areas over time. That would mean more access for more people in the case of health care, but instead with deep government intrusion for decades, we have seen ever increasing prices and sluggish innovation.

Libertarian philosophy has a lot to do with a belief in sound market principles. Why should all that go out the window for health care?

The problems facing health care today, in my view, are largely a result of the free market being trampled on. People who don't really understand market principles will tell you the exact opposite, that health care has been nothing but a free for all, totally unregulated. Do you believe that?

It sounds like you might generally agree with libertarian ideas and some research on scholars like F.A. Hayek and Ludwig von Mises might help focus your libertarian perspective.
This is really cool, and doesn't require car headlights shining on your bike like reflectors do.

When driving in my car at night, I would occasionally notice some bicycles with reflective strip around the tires. Car headlights just light them up, making it very easy to see a bike from the side. I finally found that many Schwalbe tires have this reflective strip (e.g. http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/schwalbe.asp third paragraph).

I saw a bike the other night with a half-dozen or more of those in-spoke reflectors. Very visible in headlights.
PS - what is "circuithub.com" building? Is it a competitor to what you guys are working on? Excited that we're seeing some development in this area.
> I find it incredibly offensive that you equate someone believing that non-universal healthcare might be better economically for larger groups of people to someone thinking that enslaving black people is ok.

Good, maybe you'll think about it for two seconds then.

> Actually, I find it almost impossible to believe that you think they're equal. Do you seriously not recognize that there is substantial debate in the field of economics about this?

Nobody is debating this outside the US, much like Libertarianism, it's something that only exists in the dreams of those so far-gone to the right in the US that they don't know which way is up.

> Mostly I just find it disappointing that you apparently can't do anything in defense of your ideas other than sling mud

You aren't even partially aware of what name-calling or slinging mud are. I haven't once insulted anyone here. Nor have I attacked a poster.

I wrote off my interest in the argument entirely because to me, it's a settled issue akin to slavery. That's offensive to you?

You taking offense is offensive to me. We're talking about a basic human right everyone except the US has agreed upon and you're going to throw an economic argument at me? Yeah, go ahead and be offended all you want. It's pretty clear here who has empathy and who doesn't.
That's an ivory tower political philosophy concept, merely a new mask put on the religious concept that certain inalienable rights are given to us by God.

Of the rights we have in the United States, most we have because of long western European (and particularly British) tradition (which incorporates religious doctrine, particularly Christianity), and some we have because we fought a war of independence against England to win those extra rights.

The constitutions of the U.S. and its component States try to minimize infringements into individual liberty, by defaulting to individual liberty, but society has become so complex that that fail-liberal ideal has been lost in practice. Individual liberty ends up affecting other people too much to be ignored. Few people want to take the heat for defending the negative aspects of individual liberty, so the erosion continues.

"Positive rights" vs "negative rights", "rights" vs "privileges": I don't think any of that philosophical wrangling does anything to change the reality of the situation.

Individual freedom is not inherent inside a political body. If we want rights, we have to defend them, and if we want rights we don't have, we have to fight (politically speaking) to obtain them.
> The GPL is almost an anti-license, since it exists solely to do the exact opposite of what copyright laws and licenses are intended to do (restrict freedoms).

And yet it restricts my freedom to do what I wish with derivatives. Almost an anti-license, indeed.

I appreciate you side-stepping my point so deftly. Allow me to reiterate it:

- You cannot be an enemy of DRM and support software licenses. They are mutually exclusive positions.

I also hate this pervasive idea that our legal system is "broken". Copyright, just like patents, have been historically important to innovation and we'd be in a much different situation today were it not for both. Every generation always comes along and deems principles of antiquity "broken" because they don't bother to grok the historical context. If you were to say something like "in need of reform," I'm right there with you.
I should have said "recent past". I am not familiar with steampunk. I read Wikipedia article, but that's it.

But what about the present day? The technology that we might think of today as thing of the future might just be developed in some obscure lab today, or 5-15 years ago. Wouldn't it be fun to speculate in that direction?
I by DRM-free books from O'Reilly. I wonder if they're profitable, or if O'Reilly does it for the good of mankind, or to make some other point. Or maybe they're just profitable.

Whatever, I have no reluctance at all to buy an O'Reilly ebook. DRM books make me nervous. What happens to them when I die? The "Rights" in DRM refer to the sellers or publishers rights, not mine.
Rights are something we made up. In fact, I dare you to find a difference between a right to [free speech|health care] and an entitlement to [free speech|health care].

Don't get me wrong, I'm staunchly in favor of human rights. But claiming they're inherent won't do you any good when you're looking at the barrel of a gun, regardless of who holds it. Rights are created and defended in the culture first, and may or may not percolate through to government and law.
Nice. But I was a bit disappointed that when I clicked on the "get started now" link it didn't take me to a "coming soon, enter your email address to be first in the queue" form...
Not working in Chrome here (Chrome 22; OS X 10.8.2).
V8 handles them w minimal overhead in JavaScript.
Without squinting too closely, I think it's this one. I get these on Livejournal and have seen them around the 'net. There's generic content that may apply to any possible post, and then the incentive is the PageRank that flows back from the username link. An improvement even would be to have a bot generate text based on the post, and then have paid humans deal with the captchas. </evilhat>
Does Google report this anywhere nowadays? I searched for it a while back and couldn't find it.
"Sorry, but there is no way a ton of people from Indonesia, Saudia Arabia, etc. have suddenly and amazingly become interested in a southern women’s blog (stylish as it may be). Besides, the Likes appear only on promoted posts."

Among the Asian nouveau riche and middle class fashion is a big deal. How do I know? Facebook friends.

The rest of his comments and conclusions might be accurate, but that bit sounds ignorant. Asian region/language-specific web communities are among the biggest in the world, and this includes fashion related groups.
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An argument for how GNOME developers can avoid this problem was recently made at http://jeff.ecchi.ca/blog/2012/10/08/reducing-our-core-apps-...
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Hey, I made this last night while procrastinating. It was just a little project to learn a bit about the Dropbox api.
> Rights are created and defended in the culture first, and may or may not percolate through to government and law.

In case you missed it, that was the point of my original comment. An 'inherent' right can (and should) be defended by the culture, regardless of whether or not any government exists to respect it.
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He Can always testify before congress...No? Every political fundraising memo is form of "Guy X warns of Doom...Act Now...send your $$$" Where was he for Bhengazi?
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With StartupSchool coming up next weekend, I thought it would be nice to have a site where you can post parties, jobs, rideshare, rooms for rent and tips for attendees.

HNBoard can also be used in general for job postings, looking for co-founders, etc.

Thanks.
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As an owner of a Meego phone I have to disagree.

I loved it(now I use an Iphone), it is rock solid and what it does does it great.

Meego would had been at least a Bada (Samsumg OS) equivalent, and it would had been very important if it had not been murdered by Elop.

There was an internal war in the company with Meego and Elop made sure it was killed, doing things like using underperforming hardware, getting rid of this people as well.

In fact if it were for Elop, there would had never been a Meego phone.
Super clean. Good concept.
All the best !!
> Please explain how content that is inherently very expensive to create (such as big movies and games) would be funded under the proposed system.

It's always cute when people have knee-jerk responses without reading the article. The "proposed system" is... the current system. "We’d like to keep the copyright monopoly for commercial use" is the exact quote.
Think of it this way:

The GPL grants you the right of access to source code for software distributed to you by denying the author his right to keep it from you.

So the GPL, like the state, doesn't grant rights per se, so much as it restricts others' ability to take action that would infringe on said rights.
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> You cannot be an enemy of DRM and support software licenses. They are mutually exclusive positions.

Who said anything about "supporting" software licenses?
I'm not convinced that such a precriptive statement makes sense. You could just as easily say that long-form books are about content, not presentation, yes I know of many books whose typography and presentation have a significant effect.

Perhaps Piki isn't what you think a wiki should be. Congratulations, know we know that semantic shift is alive and well.
Since you keep ignoring my question about licenses, as you have since the very first time I asked it, I am forced to assume your answer.
Reading it now. (ot: His commentary on the Gita is also quite lovely.)
Terry Pratchett (wildly successful author of the Discworld series) once quipped that fantasy is just scifi without the nuts and bolts. I take that as indicating that fantansy and scifi are related in that they both create narratives around fictional mechanics. The tropes differ, but they are exploring the similar space of what might happen in a world with mechanics (e.g. magic, 'quantum') allowing completely different set of experiences than the real world.
According to the economist Dean Baker, if the US spent the same amount as other industrialized countries do on health care, it would have huge budget surpluses right now.
> Intel graphics card don't count if you're doing serious 3D work.

(I started work on the 3D driver team at Intel in July, but everything I say is my own opinion.)

Historically, I think you might be right. Lately (the last few years) I think Intel significantly improved both its hardware and drivers.

The i965 driver is the only free software driver that supports OpenGL 3.1. The team I'm on is responsible for a huge number of improvements to the 3D stack, including rewriting the GLSL compiler which benefits the Radeon and Nouveau drivers as well.

We've had engineers visit Valve in person and make sure that their stuff will work well on our drivers. I'd consider what Valve is doing to be "serious 3D work."

Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge are pretty respectable. Haswell will be even better. You should reconsider your position.
Can we just call proposals like this: 'double charging'

So we'd rewrite this to be: 'US ambassador: Internet double charging proposal gaining momentum'.

We all know that we pay for our internet access to websites. Those websites shouldn't be charged again. We should have that fact built into the language we use discussing these issues. I think it's easier to oppose this type of thing when stating the problem states your argument.

EDIT:

Actually I've just reread the article. This is just FUD being spouted by the US government to scare it's citizens. They want the US to retain control of the internet (which is totally understandable) and are saying bad things will happen if they let the UN take control. It's building a justification for not going along with the rest of the world if all the other countries agrees to something it doesn't like.

It's possibly not worth worrying about as long as you live in a country with a competitive telecoms market.
Yes. I've got two young daughters I can spend time with firming the work day precisely because I can answer emails and take calls from the park or zoo. Does that mean they don't have my undivided attention every minute that I'm with them? Yes, but I'm able to be with them a lot more than I would otherwise. And as the author also mentioned, kids entertaining themselves periodically is a good thing too.
Coincidentally, I've been working on this idea and I was going to show it today.

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It's a 10 seconds trick that did the job and did not require recompiling.

EDIT: seeing how it has been downvoted, IMHO hacking is all about time and effectiveness. if you believe fixing ls print formats is such a crucial problem that it requires more than seconds of your time, we have different values.

Feel free to support the argument by showing your skills and improving the example.
A quote from the article: "On Tuesday, the board passed a revised strategic plan that says that by 2018, it wants 90 percent of Asian students, 88 percent of white students, 81 percent of Hispanics and 74 percent of black students to be reading at or above grade level."

Putting aside for the moment the racial and political issues, and because of the technical meaning of "grade level", the described goal is impossible.

Let's say for the sake of simplicity that the size of the four named groups are equal in the student population (the outcome of this thought experiment doesn't depend on this assumption). Using that assumption, this means the school board wants (90+88+81+74) / 4 = 83.25% of the students to perform at or above grade level. But by definition, the statistical category "at or above grade level" cannot possibly be greater than 50%, and if it was, the meaning of "grade level" would change to accommodate that reality.

Unless the town is named Lake Wobegon (where all the students are famously above average), this school board needs to learn some mathematics and statistics along with laws against discrimination based on race, creed or color.
So how much could Netflix pull in with ads? They streamed a billion hours in June, so if it was one ad per half-hour (on average), at 30$ CPM does that imply 60M$\month? That's a serious amount of money.
John Barnes wrote a whole series of this kind of alt-history (e.g. "Caesar's Bicycle", "Washington's Dirigible", etc.). Which reminds me that there is, of course, a entire genre called "alt-history", starting presumably with Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", and notably including L. Sprague deCamp's "Lest Darkness Fall" (1941, and online in its entirety at scribd by arrangement with the author), and branching out a lot over the past decade or so.
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